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Adam Hughes’s preliminary design sketches (A and B) for Fire’s 1990s costume have been shared online by their owner Mike Frigon. Note the reference to Keith Giffen wanting a “Madonna look.”
Beatriz DaCosta, Fire (previously the Green Fury/Flame), was introduced in the comic book that accompanied the Super Friends cartoon. She was a Brazilian superhero who had the ability to breathe green fire and, while she was never seen in the cartoon, she was patterned after international/ethnic heroes like Samurai or Black Vulcan. Fire and her best friend Ice (Tora) were brought into the Justice League during the Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis era.
The Invasion crossover was used to change her into Human Torch like living flame. At the same time JLA artist Adam Hughes updated Fire and Ice’s costumes. Fire’s original Super Friends costume was a full body yellow/green leotard, but when she came into the DCU she acquired a rather less conservative costume that was split down to her naval. Hughes updated that costume for a Madonna/Rock inspired ensemble. Since the end of the JLI era Fire has reverted to hero spy roots and has joined the Checkmate organisation as Black King’s Knight.
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